Overview
- The child, injured Tuesday after falling from the rear of a municipal garbage truck, remains intubated in the pediatric intensive care unit with a guarded prognosis.
- Follow-up scans at 48 hours showed a frontal intracerebral hemorrhage and an occipital subdural hematoma on top of a severe occipital skull fracture.
- Police and witness accounts say he was hanging onto the back of the truck with another child who jumped off and ran away.
- The case is under a provisional charge of lesiones culposas graves, a serious negligent injury classification in Argentina, as investigators work to assign responsibility for the irregular transport of minors.
- Neighbors aided the boy until first responders arrived, and an emergency unit transferred him to Hospital de Niños Dr. Orlando Alassia, with the probe likely to drive reviews of safety practices in local waste collection.